[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 7, Nongshim (004370) declined 3.07% to 299,500 won (US$ 268.49). It had declined 3.54% through the past month. Standard deviation, the risk index for stock price, was 1.7% over the same period of time over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, the monthly volatility of Nongshim was not so high, the earnings rate for 1 month was also the lowest with decline of stock price. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was -2.0%. As high volatility and a bearish stock price trend, the return-on-risk was poor, compared with its peer group. Moreover, compared with the KOSPI industry, the return-on-risk is below the industrial mean, 1.6, and thus the industrial comparison performance was not so good.

Comparing industry to the market, the KOSPI industry including Nongshim records lower volatility and earning rate than Foods & Beverages. In other words, the industry had less volatility and the returns were also smaller than the market.

While institutions have been selling Nongshim during the past 3 trading days, foreigners have been buying during the past 2 trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, institutions have bought 2,183 shares in spite of lowered the position recently and individuals have bought 170 shares changing stance to buying from selling. However, during the same period, foreigners have sold 2,353 shares.

Cumulated shareholdings per investor group (1Mo) Total shareholdings per investor group

By HeRo (hero@heraldcorp.com)

This article is produced by the algorithm developed by the artificial intelligence developer ThinkPool in collaboration with Herald Corp.